Badenoch: “The Conservatives have been honest with the public about what went wrong when we were in government” Have they hell. As this dismal commentary in The Times proves. Tell us Kemi, what would leaving the ECHR do to our Brexit arrangements? Never responsible. Never decent. Never honest.

“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.” The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.

As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes, it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all. Brexit was their weapon of choice. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

what Trump and Vance are doing to Ukraine is as despicable as what they are doing to the United States

Hi All, just released my free weekend update. Its fascinating who backed the Trump-Putin 28 point plan, and what it means about the US government being a mouthpiece for Russia. Plus, you cannot back Trump and Ukraine--if you back Trump, you can only have one master open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Very good. Very grim.

USA/Trump.. is not our friend - there is no special relationship Trump just wants a piece of us .. a big piece of us .. and toxic Farage is in compitulation to make that possible .. danger serious danger 😞

Mahmood would rather soothe the racists than do the “hard work of confronting the economic failure… and cowardice that has enabled the rise of the far right.” As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off. It won’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Only ‘ancient history’ in the sense that being a Russian asset is part of Farage/Reform’s DNA. The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Populists tell people what they want to hear, make undeliverable promises. They rely on charisma & rhetoric, not practical solutions. They're almost always incompetent when given power.

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Because Europeans and Americans are too stupid to build brilliant technology. Even all Nvidia chips are not made in America but made in China / Taiwan.

Absolutely

"A spokesperson for Reform UK referred the Guardian to a representative for Farage, who was contacted for comment.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

'A new set of forest towns will be built in the area between Oxford and Cambridge, nestled in the middle of a new national forest'. These are charter cities and are being set up in deregulated SEZs. Yet again, The Guardian omits to investigate the truth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No, this is completely independent of any policies. Our atmosphere is observable. We know how much greenhouse gas content is already there. If we stop adding anything today, our climate is still going to continue to spiral to more than 3.0C above 1850 levels by 2050.

DOGE shut down in US www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

Read all about it: babelfish.news

With Paraguay btw - that’s been the case for decades… as they have the vast Itaipu hydroelectric dam which provides way more energy than they need - so they sell surplus to neighbouring countries.

Critical Update! The Guardian’s Failure: Questions Not Asked Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter. Please read www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What she didn’t ask: Who elects the trustees? (They’re appointed, not elected) What do the founders receive? (80 acres worth millions) Can villages veto? (Secretary of State decides) Why are anarcho-capitalists backing cooperatives? (Because it’s not actually cooperative)

Instead, The Guardian published beautiful renderings and £350,000 price tags while ignoring that the same architect designed Próspera—where water was weaponized against democratic opposition.

This is why mainstream media fails on charter cities. They take the marketing at face value, never examine the governance structure, and provide legitimacy to projects that would fail basic scrutiny.

When I asked Malik these questions, he admitted appointed trustees, SEZ powers, founder land gifts, and no village vetoes. Then he called me “shady” for documenting his admissions. The Guardian gave him a platform. I gave him accountability.

Paul Powlesland, presented as “nature’s advocate,” sits on ACDC’s board, the private corporation receiving 80 acres. In Próspera, the developer’s foundation provided water, then cut it off to punish opposition. >

> In Forest City, the “independent” nature advocate is on the corporate board profiting from the project. This is greenwashing, not guardianship. I keep telling people that freeports and SEZs are stepping stones to charter cities, that libertarian fantasies are fast becoming reality!

Monbiot supports democratic community control, not libertarian charter cities Malik is weaponizing Monbiot’s critique of industrial agriculture to justify what Monbiot would oppose: corporate seizure of 45,000 acres with private governance.

Malik tells The Guardian that George Monbiot “converted” him to the view that farmland is “just green industrial land, it’s terrible for nature.” Using Monbiot’s environmental critique to justify libertarian land seizure is like citing Karl Marx to sell private healthcare.

What This Means: The Guardian piece is worse than puff journalism, it’s platform provision without accountability. By presenting Forest City uncritically, they: Gives legitimacy to a charter city model Obscures the governance structure >

Provides progressive cover for a libertarian project Fails to connect to Próspera/NEOM/charter city pattern Let's Malik control the narrative completely open.substack.com/pub/european...

£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning.

Hardly an “Poor me” story. Apparently they had to pay the first instalment of inheritance tax of £29k before they could sell the house subsequently to benefit very considerably from its value. But given there was also a £93,000 cash ISA inherited that would hardly be a stretch, would it?

A free zone, eg freeport, SEZ, or charter city has separate laws and regulations from the host country. They are carve-outs that compete for profit, subsidised with public money (State aid). Deregulated zones give governance powers, land, tax breaks, licenses to corporations, it's PPP on steroids.

This was Russia’s proposed and cynical NOT-a-peace-plan So OF COURSE it should be altered. A lot

The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election. Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Please read the above thread/article, according to Shiv Malik, 'green party campaigners' are supporting a charter city project in Suffolk, they probably don't know the whole story about Forest City, but I do after interviewing Shiv Malik. Get in touch.

Read this and weep. A clear and depressing takedown of the Quisling Trump administration, its abject subservience to Russia and betrayal of Ukraine, and by extension, all of us in NATO. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

You're so nearly there, Daniel. Now think about Farage. . .

I dunno, convert some of the endless paved space reserved for cars into green space that can absorb water, maybe? Sorry, forget it. That could result in a car owner being inconvenienced, which would of course be far worse than the flooding of our cities and towns.

The Bishop of Norwich has taken aim at the Home Office’s asylum reforms, warning they’ll make integration harder and deepen division. A rare intervention – and a sharp one.

What’s more expensive: investing in renewables, or dealing with the £38 trillion annual cost of unchecked climate damage?

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

From the obvious reality of this two-bit bigot to the orchestrated attacks on the BBC to the pathological arrogance of Johnson & Cummings, it’s oddly ungratifying to see so much of ‘How They Broke Britain’ still resonating this month.

Touchdown in Luanda, Angola for the EU-African Union Summit. 25 years ago at our first Summit in Cairo, Europe and Africa decided to build a common future together. Today in Luanda, we celebrate the spirit of Cairo and take our unique partnership to the next level.

I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*. Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”

Look at the signatories backing Suffolk's Forest City, which is a charter city, a mixture of Labour politicians, the extreme far right, multi-millionaire libertarians. www.forestcity.uk